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J. L. H. G. SIM ONIS.- MACHINE FOR DRYING AND GARBONIZING WOOL, &c.

No. 416,648. PatentedDemB. 1889'.

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7 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFI CE.

JACQUES LOUIS HENRI GUILLAUME SIMONIS, oF'vERvmRs, BELGIUM.

MACHINE FOR DRYING AND CARBONIZING wooL, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,648, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed June 18, 1889. Serial No.3l4,ll2. (No model.) Patented in Belgium July 16, 1888, No. 82,390, and November 30,

- 1888, No. 83,986 i in France November 22, 1888, No. 194,276, and in England April 23, 1889, N. 6,793.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AcoUEsLoUIs HENRI GUILLAUME SIMONIS, a subject of the King of the Belgians, and a resident of Verviers, Belgium, have invented certain Improvements'in a Machine forDrying and Carbonizing Wool and other Textile Matters, (for which I have obtaineda British patent No.

6,793, dated April 23, 1889; a French patent,

No. 194,276, dated November 22, 1888, and

Belgian patents, Nos. 82,390 and 83,986, dated July 16, 1888, and November 30, 1888,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide novel means for drying, carbonizing, and purifying or cleaning wool and other textile material; and it consists in the combination of devices hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

- A, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, in which drums B B B B of unlimited number, are arranged. These drums travel slowly in the direction shown by the arrows. They may vary in number according to, the production requiring to be attained in the drier. The drums B are composed of a shaft D, a wire-gauze cylinder body, sheet-iron plates E, fitted on the shaft D, wire-gauze wings 0, (see Fig. 2,) through which the hot air can pass in every part, so as to traverse the layers and locks of wool in movement upon the drumsB B B B Second, of an entrance, Fig. 2, consisting of the wire-gauze band F, upon which the wool to be dried is placed in order to feed the drier.

Third, of a discharging contrivance consisting of eight movable pieces 0, formed of zinc or other metal hanging loosely from a rod T. The lower ends of these eight pieces rest upon the apron S S S, Figs. 2 and 4:. As

the wool leaves the machine, it raises the pieces 0' with more or less force, according to the thickness of the locks of wool. These pieces 0' keep the opening of the discharge always closed and prevent the escape of warm air.

Fourth, in the yielding of the partitions 1-1 p and H of the chimney-shaped case A. These partitions are held in position by rods G. Pins L, fixed to the partitions H, run loosely through the partitions H and the rods K. Spiral springs I, placed on thepins L between the rods K and partitions H, keep the partitions H and H at a slight distance apart from hot air is forced to passthrough the drums Fifth, of an apparatus for cleaning and purifying Wool by ventilation, consisting of the endless band F, of the wire-gauze cage a, I), (Z, c, and f, which may be of any suitable form, according to the nature of the Work to be accomplished. The ventilation arising from the opening N of my drying and car bonizing machine'drives through the Wiregauze the dirt and impurities contained in the Wool, as shown in the plan view by small arrows. (See Fig. 2.) These impurities and dirt are consequently driven out of the cage and fall on the floor or in receptacles, as at P placed to receive them, while the wool remains inside the cage and passes along in the direction desired.

Sixth, in the application of a heating-inlet M, smaller than the large inlet M and taking in heated air from the latter or from a multitubular boiler and placed to introduce hot air into the case A at various heights when the case is made for more than four drums B, placed one above the other.

Seventh, ofa raising apparatus for automatically lifting the wool and other textile matters to the height of thedrying-machine, and consisting of an endless band P, passing over the cylinders P P of a second endless band Q, passing over the cylinders Q and Q of a third endless band B, passing over the cylinders R and R and of two'beaters S and S, intended to clean the bands Q and R and to throw the wool into the receptacle U.

WVorkin'g of the machine: The washed and damp Wool coming from the well-known leviathan and deposited on the endless band XV passes between the compressors Y Y onto the endless band WV, and falls upon the endless band P. The wool deposited on the endless band P is taken between the endless bands Q and R, which raise it and deposit it in the receptacle U by means ofthe heaters S and S. A workman standing on the platform V takes the wool and places it in the compartments of the drum B. As the drum B rotates, it allows the wool to fall in small quantities into the compartments of the drum B, which in rotating allows it to fall in small quantities into the compartments of the drum B The latter in rotating allows it to fall into the compartments of the drum B which allows it to fall in' small quantities upon the endless band S S S which carries it outside. During the downward course of the damp wool or other textile material in the case A it falls by its own weight in small Fig. 1, and driven by the ventilator Z along.

the tubes of a multitubular steam-boiler Z which heats it. It then passes along the passage M into the chimney-shaped case A, and finally leaves by the orifice N, loaded with the humidity, dirt, and dust that the wool previously contained. J

In order to set forth clearly the structure of the fixed partitions, the drum B has been taken away. These fixed partitions have openings T, the inner edges of which are covered with strips of felt T to prevent the air and the wool from passing between the plates E of the drums and the said fixed partitions.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A wool drying and carbonizing apparatus consisting of an upright casing, a series of revolving perforated drums arranged one above the other and each having on its outside a series of radial perforated wings, and a hot-air conduit connected with the base of the casing, substantially as described.

2. A wool drying and carbonizing apparatus consisting of an upright casing, having at its top a wool-feeding apron and at its bottom a hot-air conduit, a series of revolving drums arranged one above the other a wooldischarging apron beneath the lowermost drum, and pivoted plates over the delivery end of the discharge-apron which normally rest thereupon and are raised by the wool passing thereunder, substantially as described.

3. An apparatus for drying and carbonizing wool, consisting of an upright casing, a series of revolving perforated drums having radial perforated wings and located one above the other, a hot-air conduit through which the hot air is forced into the base of the easing, and a cleaner and purifier composed of a foraminous cage located over the upper end of the casing and through which the impurities contained in the wool are driven, substantially as described.

a. A wool drying and carbonizing'apparatus consisting of an upright casing having a hot-air inlet and opposite laterally-yielding partitions, a series of revolving drums comprising perforated cylinders located between the opposite partitions and toward which the partitions are constantly pressed, 

